But the ambitious 47-year-old superstar has put out a trio of new albums over the past three years as well as starring in several feature films, including “The Blind Side” with Sandra Bullock in 2009 and “Country Strong” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow just a year later. He’s also the loving and doting husband of fellow country star ... Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, long-dormant but newly reunited English group Slowdive, one of the leading lights of the shoegaze scene of the early ’90s, will appear at the weekend event, Aug. 23-24 at its new location, the L.A. Sports Arena & Exposition Park.

Yes, Phoenix, the French quartet (fronted by vocalist Thomas Mars, above) that headlined a night ...

Sincere or phony, authentic or affected, believable or laughable – these sorts of reputation-establishing debates hound just about any new rapper. But they become particularly prevalent whenever a fresh white one enters the game, like Southern-steeped sensation Iggy Azalea, the eye-grabber who puzzled as much as impressed during her sold-out show at the Observatory on Wednesday night, a club stop behind major-label debut The New Classic ahead ... Read the rest of this entry »

Violinist-composer Lindsey Stirling is undoubtedly some kind of original. In a 90-minute headlining performance at a sold-out City National Grove of Anaheim Wednesday night, the 27-year-old Santa Ana native, whose new album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard chart, presented her entertaining blend of neo-classical, electronica, Celtic, dubstep and hip-hop – an unlikely hybrid anchored by her astounding instrumental skills.

Blues fans aren’t the only concertgoers excited by the arrival of Doheny Blues Festival, Orange County’s beachfront bash returning to Dana Point this weekend.

This year’s lineup features one of the most diverse musical casts in the history of the annual festival, with a mix of veteran artists (Gregg Allman and Buddy Guy, above, headline on Saturday, while the Doobie Brothers and Gov’t Mule close things out on Sunday) and ... Read the rest of this entry »

It has been five years since girl group Danity Kane officially disbanded, after a strong but brief run that included two chart-topping albums, 2006’s self-titled debut and its follow-up, Welcome to the Dollhouse. When the ladies got together to consider a reunion, however, chatting about the possibility over coffee in Los Angeles last summer, singer Aubrey O’Day says it felt like no time had passed.

Two Superstars, Two Nights: In news overshadowed earlier this week by footage of Beyoncé’s sister Solange going ballistic on Jay Z in an elevator at NYC’s Standard Hotel, the dynamic duo’s On the Run Tour, already slated for Aug. 2 at the Rose Bowl, has unsurprisingly added a second date at the Pasadena landmark, just as Eminem & Rihanna have. Tickets for the ... Read the rest of this entry »

The moniker popped up not while hearing “America the Beautiful” but during a trip home from seeing Ethiopian funk band Sun Hop Fat in Oakland.

“They just brought the house down … we were amazed,” Ryan Wagner recalls. “Me and Dave (Muller) decided we were going to make a band. On the drive home, I was looking out the window and saw the purple mountains on ... Read the rest of this entry »

Fresh off his week-starting Tonight Show appearance alongside Neil Young – who cut his new instamatic work A Letter Home using a vintage Voice-O-Graph machine at Third Man Records – Jack White, that label's owner, has announced a trio of Southern California dates coinciding with the release of his next solo album, Lazaretto.

It’s easy – if also unsympathetic and probably inaccurate – to view the iconic Englishman called Morrissey as the instigator of his own unhappiness. That it isn’t any government or vicious meat eaters or his former mates in the Smiths or this cruel world in general that has made him so poetically miserable, but rather his own perpetually aggrieved disposition that sometimes leads to misfortune.